Hi, Just wanted to check with other admitted students: is anybody else still waiting for their FA offer? D needs to make her choice soon, but on her NYU portal there’s no financial information.
Call financial aid office.
Just did. A polite young man on the other end put me on hold, came back and said we didn’t qualify for ANY financial aid “due to the limited amount of funding available to international students”. Why accept a student applying for FA when no FA is given? and why did it take them so long to come out with this information? 71K a year is very steep. Good thing we have other options. Very angry with this so called “acceptance”.
Many international students come to NYU despite the lack of FA. They accepted your D because she was a qualified candidate. If you read up on FA aid at NYU ahead of time, you would have known that they offer very few international students aid. In general NYU is not known for good aid, yet they have no problem attracting students. I doubt it would be a better system if they automatically rejected students that they gap.
well, most colleges aren’t need blind for intl students, which makes the competition for this category of applicants all the more steep. we knew that. just in this case the acceptance sounds like a cruel joke. at the very least, they could’ve said this at the time of posting the decision - “yes, you meet our admission standards, but we don’t have the money” - instead of making us wait&hope